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SoMI SE Stans voice

hamziehamzie
edited July 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Did anyone else feel the voice was just

meh

and didnt suit a very jubilant stan

Im pretty sure the voice actor maybe the same .. but .. he just didnt feel upto the task i guess??

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  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited July 2009
    I thought it worked fine
  • Psychotron7x2Psychotron7x2
    edited July 2009
    Sounded great to me. It may have been the highlight of the voice acting talent after Dominic and Earl Boen.
  • TacobobTacobob
    edited July 2009
    His voice was perfect...His arms...Just looked odd when they were animated..One looked like it was sticking out from the center of his chest...o_O
  • zmallyzmally
    edited July 2009
    Tacobob wrote: »
    His arms...Just looked odd when they were animated..One looked like it was sticking out from the center of his chest...o_O

    ... Good old Stan!
  • PariahKingPariahKing
    edited July 2009
    Good voice for Stan in MI3, not a good Stan voice for the originals.

    Well. I got used to it and eventually enjoyed it. But it was jarring.
  • Wile_EWile_E
    edited July 2009
    I think the voice fit perfectly. And the arm animations are basically the same as the original. He was whacked out in the original game. It looks like they used same amount of frames to animate his arms.
  • hamziehamzie
    edited July 2009
    PariahKing wrote: »
    Good voice for Stan in MI3, not a good Stan voice for the originals.

    Well. I got used to it and eventually enjoyed it. But it was jarring.


    yay someone agrees with me
    haha

    Is it the same voice actor?

    Or different?
  • MagwillMagwill
    edited July 2009
    Also consider this that when writing the script in today's games, the voice actor will together with the sound crew change written lines that don't seem to work alright when reading them out loud. All the text in the special edition were the same as in the original game, a game where all the text was just supposed to be read. What I'm saying is that the lines may not be perfect for voiceovers. I also remember someone else mention that it might sound strange because they had to match the length of their recording to how long the text was displayed in the original game.

    I also noticed he wasn't as good as usual, but IMO it was due to the fact that the script wasn't as well thought out as in for example MI3.
  • The TinglerThe Tingler
    edited July 2009
    hamzie wrote: »
    yay someone agrees with me
    haha

    Is it the same voice actor?

    Or different?

    It is indeed the same voice actor who played Stan in Curse of Monkey Island. LucasArts got back all the voice actors they could from MI3 and 4 who played the characters (the only one they couldn't get was Carla), but if there was a different voice for each game they sided with the COMI version - that's Elaine and Stan. Shame, as I think I prefer the Escape versions. I still love the ones there, though, and I think they work fine here... although Stan's not quick enough.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited July 2009
    I see Stan (meaning Pat the actor) doing much more dynamic voice! He should be annoying, not slick and smooth... Or maybe a balance between those.
    It was really cool, he did a great job considering the circumstances... But I'd really like to hear him speak as if he's in a hurry!
    It would be much more amazing...
    And "Howdy!" should be much more... ALIVE!! As in... HOWDYYY! Happy-like!
  • StuartStuart
    edited July 2009
    I liked it, almost exactly as I expected him to sound.
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited July 2009
    The only problem I had with it, minor really, is that he sounded too slow, even with text speed on full, this is Stan, he should be speaking at like four times the speed of everyone else! :)
  • ViraVira
    edited July 2009
    Nope, I love his voice. Plus I adore LucasArts for caring enough to bring back his original CMI voice actor.
  • Dan2593Dan2593
    edited July 2009
    GREEAAT. How Much?

    ONLY 5000!?

    He worked perfect for me. Cheesy car salesman suits him than the Billy Mays people want him to be.
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited July 2009
    I don't think people wanted him to be Billy Mays :p Just a little faster, listen to him in Curse and in Secret, obviously due to engine limitations (Had to be in sync with the subtitles of the original game) Stans lines were said slower compared to Curse where he's just throwing lines out there.
  • WDerangedWDeranged
    edited July 2009
    I always imagined Stan as a quick talking Texan kind of guy, not to say I don't like the mid-atlantic tone but he could definitely have been more hectic.
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